Wireless Router Shared

redfish36117 · 09-06-2007, 09:38 AM

We have a small book store and have installed a wireless router for our customers use. But I have two computers on that router that are wired and I need these to be behind a firewall or something so that the files cannot be seen. I read somewhere about using another wired router and connecting it to the wireless router. Then connecting the two wired pc to it and that would keep them from being seen. Does this sound right? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

johnwill · 09-06-2007, 11:17 AM

That's pretty much it.

Buy a wired router and connect it's WAN/Internet port to one of the LAN/Network ports of the wireless router. Reset the wired router to factory defaults, which should be right to make a connection. Put all of your private wired machines on the new router, and the customers will still be using the old wireless machine. Your machines will be behind the NAT layer of the new router and protected from access by any of the wireless machines.

One possible adjustment. If both routers have the same 192.168. x.1 base address, you'll have to adjust the secondary router's base address to a different subnet. Say x is "1" for your primary wireless router, you can make the new secondary router "2".

redfish36117 · 09-08-2007, 08:03 PM

Thank you for your reply. I have not had a chance to try it. I hope to be able to do that tomorrow. Again, thanks so much.

09-06-2007, 09:38 AM	#1 (permalink)
redfish36117 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Auburn, Alabama Posts: 33 OS: XP	Wireless Router Shared We have a small book store and have installed a wireless router for our customers use. But I have two computers on that router that are wired and I need these to be behind a firewall or something so that the files cannot be seen. I read somewhere about using another wired router and connecting it to the wireless router. Then connecting the two wired pc to it and that would keep them from being seen. Does this sound right? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

09-06-2007, 11:17 AM	#2 (permalink)
johnwill Manager, Networking Forums Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: S.E. Pennsylvania, US Posts: 32,581 OS: XP-Pro, Vista, Linux Blog Entries: 1	Re: Wireless Router Shared That's pretty much it. Buy a wired router and connect it's WAN/Internet port to one of the LAN/Network ports of the wireless router. Reset the wired router to factory defaults, which should be right to make a connection. Put all of your private wired machines on the new router, and the customers will still be using the old wireless machine. Your machines will be behind the NAT layer of the new router and protected from access by any of the wireless machines. One possible adjustment. If both routers have the same 192.168. x.1 base address, you'll have to adjust the secondary router's base address to a different subnet. Say x is "1" for your primary wireless router, you can make the new secondary router "2". __________________ If TSF has helped you, Tell us about it! or Donate to help keep the site up! Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

09-08-2007, 08:03 PM	#3 (permalink)
redfish36117 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Auburn, Alabama Posts: 33 OS: XP	Re: Wireless Router Shared Thank you for your reply. I have not had a chance to try it. I hope to be able to do that tomorrow. Again, thanks so much.